P2P Lawsuits Flooding Germany: Prosecutors Searching Solution

As a result of a torrent (pardon the pun) of lawsuits filed against tens of thousands of the country's file sharers in recent years German prosecutors have been trying to come up with a reasonable way of coping with the problem.

According to the German IT news website heise.de is Germany's top prosecutors are planning a set of guidelines meant to improve the situation for the targeted P2P users.

The guidelines seem to be based on a "commercial level" of infringement without which no lawsuit would have a chance to stand in court . However, how to pin down this concept of commercial level of infringement is yet hard to tell.

The same German site is reporting about the possibility that liable for infringement would only be a collection of files worth over 2000 Euros (as commercial), having each MP3 esteemed at 1 Euro.

It’s only natural that this kind of guidelines should cut back on the number of lawsuits against German file sharers by somehow taking their foundation and give those who use peer-to-peer means of exchanging content a little break.